Never mind the fact that India issuing instructions to a sovereign foreign govt. is tantamount to involving India in their internal affairs...but these days Indian MEA does it anyways.
And that the Indian MEA and moreover, Indian Godi media is defending a child-molester just because he is Hindu.
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Meanwhile, the MEA said that it expected the Bangladeshi legal system to deal with โcases against individualsโ in a โin a just, fair and transparent mannerโ.
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New Delhi: Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, the Hindu religious leader at the centre of a contentious sedition case in Bangladesh, remains suspended from ISKCON and was barred from having contact with minors and holding
kirtans, as per a report.
The
Bangla Outlook news outlet
reported that the international child protection office at ISKCON, which stands for the International Society of Krishna Consciousness, suspended Chinmoy Krishna in October last year and also restricted him from participating in public worship, among other things.
ISKCON child protection office director Kamalesh Krishna Das told
Bangla Outlook that โdue to the nature of the allegations, the suspension was necessary to facilitate the investigationโ.
Das did not specify the allegations against Chinmoy Krishna, but ISKCON Bangladesh officials
said at a press conference in Dhaka on Thursday (November 28) that he had been โexpelledโ and alleged that he contravened orders to refrain from participating in the organisationโs activities after children made misconduct allegations against him, as per
Prothom Alo.
The officials also said ISKCON would not bear responsibility over Chinmoy Krishnaโs statements or speeches.
Progress in the investigation against Chinmoy Krishna โhas been delayed by certain challenges, including his level of cooperationโ,
Bangla Outlook quoted Das as alleging.
On Friday, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)
said of Chinmoy Krishnaโs arrest earlier this week that it expected the legal system in Bangladesh would deal with โcases against individualsโ in a โin a just, fair and transparent mannerโ that respects their legal rights and those of โall those who are concernedโ.
It also noted that ISKCON was a โglobally well-regarded organisation with a strong record of social serviceโ.
The MEA also registered concern โat the surge of extremist rhetoricโ as well as the โincreasing incidents of violence and provocationโ against religious minorities in the country, adding to say that these developments could not be dismissed as โmedia exaggerationsโ.
Chinmoy Krishna was arrested in Dhaka on November 25 and ordered detained on sedition charges by a Chattogram court the next day.
His supporters gathered around the police van transporting him to jail, following which clashes erupted between them and police.
A Muslim lawyer identified as a prosecutor was
killed amid the violence.
The charges allege that Chinmoy Krishna and others last month instigated a crowd to replace a Bangladeshi flag in Chattogram hoisted on the day former premier Sheikh Hasina fled the country with a saffron-coloured one of ISKCONโs,
Prothom Alo reported.
The MEA, which previously issued a
statement expressing โdeep concernโ at his detainment โ to
Dhakaโs chagrin โ said on Friday that New Delhi had โconsistently and strongly raised with the Bangladesh government the threats and targeted attacks on Hindus and other minoritiesโ.
โOur position on the matter is clear โ the interim government must live up to its responsibility of protecting all minorities,โ ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said at the weekly media briefing.
Its references to โmedia exaggerationsโ follow statements from the interim government in Dhaka that reports of attacks on religious minorities in Bangladesh after Hasinaโs ouster were being
โexaggeratedโ in Indian circles.
External affairs minister S. Jaishankar
said in a written statement in parliament on Friday that the Indian government had noted reports of violence against Hindus and attacks on temples occurring in Bangladesh around the time of Hasinaโs ouster as well as during Durga Puja.
Meanwhile, Bangladeshโs foreign ministry issued a
statement on Friday โstrongly condemn[ing]โ the
burning in effigy by Hindu protesters of interim chief adviser Muhammad Yunus outside the countryโs deputy high commission in Kolkata on Thursday.
It also condemned what it said was the burning of the Bangladeshi flag at the deputy high commission.
โAlthough the situation seems to be in control at the moment, there is a prevailing sense of insecurity among all the members of the deputy high commission,โ the Bangladeshi foreign ministry said.